Seminar Series

The Department of Economics invites guest speakers to present their research in our Seminar Series. The Economics Seminar generally meets on Fridays from 2:00 – 3:30 PM, unless otherwise noted. Anyone is welcome to attend.

Past Seminars

Fall 2005

Date Title Speaker Affiliation Paper
Fri, 10/07/2005
Eliciting Willingness to Pay without Bias: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Glenn Blomquist
University of Kentucky
Fri, 09/30/2005
Raiding and Signaling in the Academic Labor Market
Tim Perri
Appalachian State University
Fri, 09/23/2005
Internal Migration and the Earnings of Married Couples in the U.S
McKinley Blackburn
University of South Carolina

Spring 2005

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
Tue, 04/19/2005
Tradable Set-Aside Requirements (TSARs): An Application of a TPP Policy to Spatially Dependent Land Uses
Gregory Parkhurst
Mississippi State University
Fri, 04/15/2005
Testing for Unit Roots and Cointegration Using Instrumental Variables
Junsoo Lee
University of Alabama
Fri, 04/08/2005
Experimental Economics and Public Policy Workshop
Fri, 02/25/2005
A Competitive Model of (Super)Stars
Timothy Perri
Appalachian State University
Fri, 02/18/2005
Stationarity of Global Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Implications for Global Warming Scenarios
Mark Strazicich
Appalachian State University
Fri, 02/11/2005
Rent Seeking and Collusion in the Military Allocation Decisions of Finland, Sweden and the UK, 1920-38
Jari Eloranta
Appalachian State University

Fall 2004

Date Title Speaker Affiliation
Fri, 11/12/2004
It Doesn't Pay to be Young in the NBA
Dan Rosenbaum
University of North Carolina, Greensboro